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G. MASON.

LETTER FILE. No. 299,819. Patented June 3, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE MASON, OF OATLETTSBURG, KENTUCKY.

LETTER-Fl LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,819, dated June 3, 1884.

- Application filed April 11, 1884. (No model.)

sult by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a general view of the entire device. Fig. 2 represents the device as it appears in use, (in holding a bunch or package of letters.)

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents a ring, made of ebonized rubber, bone, hard wood, or other suitable material, the periphery containing two notches, B and O, nearly opposite to two holes, D and E, in the periphery of the ring. From the two holes D and E are attached two rubber or elastic cords, F and G, the end of each cord terminating with a bulb or knot.

The method of use of this convenient file.

is shown in Fig. 2. The cord F being passed around the bundle or package in one direction, and G passed around in the other direction, the knots or bulbs are slipped into the GEO. MASON.

Vi tnesses:

JOHN H. Mason, R. VAUGHAN. 

